I’m not Catholic, but I am a feminist Christian (and gay). My protestant church encourages me to have “a living encounter” with scripture. The discipline is not to keep each of the 613 commandments, but to learn to live in grace (which cannot be deserved or earned) and to learn to love more abundantly.

If you believe in a woman’s right to choose and believe in women’s equality, you are not Catholic. If you are pro life and believe women are not equal in the eyes of God (ya know, kinda like the bible says), you’re not a feminist.

My husband is Catholic, too, and a feminist. We got married in the Church with a full mass, and picked feminist-friendly readings (no “wives, be subordinate to your husbands” nonsense) that didn’t reference marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

that’s true, but we do carry all the guilt that goes along with being a catholic woman with a sex drive.

Catholicism was started by men for men and is based on religious scriptures that were written by men for men. If you support it, then we certainly don’t agree on my second point.

Or, alternatively, no, they don’t, they’re trying to fix the Church

But if they are catholic then they support the catholic church, correct? The catholic church has a political agenda to restrict reproductive rights for ALL women. Not just catholic women. So it’s not about personal choices at all. It’s about supporting an organization that wants to impose it’s will on other women.

It becomes a problem when they support a massive organization that wants to limit all women’s reproductive rights, and engages in politics to do so.

Um, what? It’s not non-catholic feminists business when a massive organization tries to restrict women’s reproductive rights around the world?

True. However, the Catholic Church wants to take reproductive rights away from all women. So, it’s kind of hard to be a feminist and a Catholic when the whole organization is so horribly anti-woman.

It just occurred to me Bryan really doesn’t even need feminism - she could have achieved being an unmarried virgin centuries ago.

Can you guys seriously leave religious women alone tho. Unless she is actively going around and shutting down planned parenthoods, or whatever just leave them the fuck alone.

This woman is trying to negotiate her religious beliefs and her feminist values

so, when girls showed a possible sexual interest in other girls, they shipped them off to live in isolated fortress like place with...a bunch of other girls who may also have felt that way? seems to be a great idea.

And because a convent full of other women who were also sent there for that reason is a logical place to send a lesbian.

Girls don’t masturbate!

Can you guys seriously leave religious women alone tho. Unless she is actively going around and shutting down planned parenthoods, or whatever just leave them the fuck alone.

Does she mean “chastity” in the sense of forgoing masturbation, as well?

She is living the life that feminists throughout history have fought for, because feminism should mean that a woman can live her life on her own terms. She’s living the feminist dream, of choosing when to marry, and when to have sex, even if that means never.

Well shit. If the only options are chastity or 12 kids I would choose chastity too. And my feminist dream was lots of premarital sex!